Re: [Matplotlib-users] using plotting contexts

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Perry" == Perry Greenfield <pe...@st...> writes:

    Perry> I had looked at that. I'm a little confused by the
    Perry> terminology though.  This sounds like a prescription for
    Perry> changing the defaults for some parameters for a session
    Perry> rather than for a single figure. Do I misread that? (Also,
    Perry> on my browser these entries are much wider than the browser
    Perry> window for some reason; later in the faq that changes as do
    Perry> some of the fonts. I wonder if something is screwed up
    Perry> there).

You were rightfully confused.  It said figure when it should say
session.  I mainly work from scripts, with one figure per script, so I
was just munging them in my mind.  I made a brief update to the FAQ in
my own tree, but with the dynamic customization you discuss below,
this will need to be updated again.

As for the browser problem, I have the same.  I tried to spot an html
error that would explain it but haven't found it yet.

    Perry> Changing the use of the rcParams to be immediate rather
    Perry> than locked in at module initialization is more attractive
    Perry> to me (and may allow one to assign differnt rc sets to
    Perry> different backends by default as well; but that is not
    Perry> urgent). Do you mind changing when the parameters are
    Perry> picked up? (I'm asking that you do it now, just whether
    Perry> that is acceptable).

This seems like the way to go.  Nothing really speaks against it
except the slightly inelegant use of a bunch of Nones in the
constructors.  I'm happy to make the changes, or leave it to one of
you.

JDH